Newsmaker (a) – Andy Clark – The Engineering of Conscious Experience

Abe Froman

Newsmaker (a) – Andy Clark
Track 01/24 – Komputer Cast 1 (parsed edition)

Library Info:
Label: KPM – Catalog#: KPM 1248

Com Truise’s Komputer Casts are basically a love letter to library music. Never heard of library music? I guarantee you have heard it. There’s been a world of interesting music right under your nose! If you’re interested in hearing more by these fantastic artists, check out the link for more information.
http://discogs.com/Andy-Clark-Synthesis-2/release/1820757

The Story:

I’ve loved Com Truise’s Komputer Casts since I first heard them, but I’ve always wanted to break them apart. I wanted to skip the songs I didn’t like. I wanted to jump to the songs I couldn’t get enough of. I wanted to share parts with others, but the hour-long single-file format kept it from reaching its potential.

I started looking for others who had already done it. I was surprised so few had tried, and discovered that simply cutting the mix into tracks wasn’t good enough.

I started looking into the tracklists provided by Com Truise. I was surprised they were so incomplete and filled with errors. Sites like discogs.com mostly copied the errors, so there wasn’t a place to get the definitive tracklisting with title and artist.

So, it started looking like I was going to have to do this myself.

Research, crate digging, collecting tracks, discovering artists, falling in love with library music… and here we are. 8 mixes’ worth of the original tracks and extras.

Bonus Tracks:

By this time, I was already down the rabbit hole, so why not make everything available? Extended movie clips. VHS distribution company bumpers. Reversed music. Italian commercials. Sesame Street. I feel like every question has been answered.

Modifications:

Because the sources for these tracks were literally all over the map, I had to make some decisions – I apologize in advance. I added one second of silence to the start and two at the end, with some fades in and out to make things neater. I re-sampled all tracks to 320 kbps, just to prevent some tracks from bombing out on older systems and cars. Lastly, I manually balanced the volume of most tracks to be as equal and as loud as I could, while trying not to damage fidelity. Com Truise’s tracks were already at 11, so I mostly left those alone. Hopefully, I did a good enough job for you not to notice.

Cheers!

Abe Froman
Chicago, IL

Komputer Cast 1 (parsed edition)
01 – Newsmaker (a) – Andy Clark
02 – The Starting Point – Andy Clark
03 – Rockin’ It In The Pocket – Weeks & Co.
04 – High Profile – Keith Mansfield
05 – Komputer – Com Truise
06 – The Appliance of Science (a) – Keith Mansfield
07 – Breathless – Todd Rundgren
08 – Carefree Days (a) [bonus track] – Keith Mansfield
09 – Challenger – Grand Prix
10 – Transmission – Joy Division
11 – Galactic Melt – Com Truise
12 – Dienyddio – Airliner
13 – Just Can’t Get Enough – General Johnson & The Chairmen of the Board
14 – Cardboard Lamb – Crash Course in Science
15 – What Is The Law – Brass Construction
16 – The Dead Walk – John Harrison
17 – BASF Ace – Com Truise
18 – Kcurts Rewop [bonus track] – Yours Truly
19 – Power Struck (b) [bonus track] – Andy Clark
20 – Clip from ‘They Live’ [bonus track] – Roddy Piper
21 – Clip from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ [bonus track] – David Anderson & Roy E. Richards
22 – Sea (excerpt) [bonus track] – Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange
23 – Running (excerpt) [bonus track] – Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange
24 – Clip from ‘Videodrome’ (a) [bonus track] – James Woods, Deborah Harry, Lally Cadeau & Jack Creley

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